Frame of Reference

Frame of Reference is a 61cm × 122cm original work by Jason Hatchell, created with spray paint, acrylic, and rusted canvas L-brackets on canvas.

There is no universal luck. There is only the angle from which you're looking.

The rusted canvas L-brackets screwed directly into the canvas are the title made physical. A frame defines a point of view. These brackets mark edges where edges refuse to contain anything.

At the center: the suit of clubs, but only partially rendered in its natural black. The rest bleeds white, incomplete, mid-transformation — as if luck itself were still in the process of being decided. It shares the canvas with a vertical black form pressing against it, tension held without resolution.

Hidden throughout: 8s and 13s stamped into it, but never coming together. Eight, broadly lucky. Thirteen, personally lucky. Together they sum to 21 — but only if you're counting, and only if you know what to look for.

Luck isn't distributed. It's recognized — and recognition is entirely a matter of where you're standing. And once you think you've figured out all those angles, remember - there's also the POV of the person who made it...

Your frame of reference is the hand you're playing.

Somewhat ironically, the frame is not included — you'll have to provide your own for this one, too.